Benjamin Carson Quotes

I just happen to believe that people are not stupid.

Benjamin Carson

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• When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • People
  • Like
  • Hands

• People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

  

  Ralph Allen
  • People
  • Feel
  • Presence

• Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Time
  • Present

• Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Novels

• I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Work
  • Me

• My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Father

• 'Moonlight' changed me. To see people so moved by this movie inspires me to find something else to offer. And maybe the next one touches only five people or maybe just one person. To me, you know, that would still be worth it.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Movie
  • Worth

• What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • People
  • Man
  • Investment

• I was in Toronto when the big Women's March was going on, and I thought, 'Well, I've never been to a protest, and I can't sit this one out, and they're having a gathering here in Toronto, so I may as well go,' and gosh, I didn't expect 60,000 or 65,000 people to be there - it was huge! It was something that I didn't feel I could sit out at all.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Women
  • May

• I so think it's limiting to define an audience ahead of time. This is something I've brought on myself by being like, 'There are no 'real' teen publications! That's what I'll do!' But then it's like, well, if I want 'Rookie' to be successful and popular, then people will invalidate the realness by saying it's popular and mainstream.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Character

• I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Faith

• Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Impossible

• I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And I really enjoy writing - especially my political commentary.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• I have stayed true to that first idea that people can have a day in their lives that is very important and if they can reconnect with that day, reconnect with the people they were then, they can suddenly revive their emotions.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • People
  • Important
  • True

• I've never seen anything like the way some young people behave. They go out on a date, and they're sitting opposite each other at a table, and they're not looking at each other, and they text each other as though they're deaf-mutes. It's insane.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Looking
  • Text

• People are drawn to preaching that is passionate and offered with conviction. Passion comes when the preacher has spent significant time with the text, and when God has spoken through the text in a way that addresses the preacher's life first.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I think my size sometimes catches people off guard, but I don't think size matters when it comes to power. Mechanics and technique and bat speed matter more.

  

  Andrew Benintendi
  • People
  • Power

• There is real power in seeing yourself as a hero. Because then you believe that you can do anything.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Power

• Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.

  

  Joanna Scott
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Engagement

• I'm not totally blind to the fact that I like people to see my work, but if it's not something I would enjoy seeing in a magazine, then I think I shouldn't be making it. I think that I don't represent only myself, I represent more people; I mean, if I like it, then I think more people will like it because I think I'm quite a normal guy.

  

  Anton Corbijn
  • People
  • Work
  • Guy

• The House is composed of very good men, not shining, but honest and reasonably well-informed, and in time they will be found to improve, and not to be much inferior in eloquence, science, and dignity, to the British Commons. They are patriotic enough, and I believe there are more stupid (as well as more shining) people in the latter, in proportion.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I just happen to believe that people are not stupid.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Not Stupid